CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/1/2026

A new edition of Mike Mandel's classic conceptual photobook

Featured image is reproduced from Eighteen Publications’ new, revised edition of Myself: Timed Exposures, Mike Mandel’s first-ever photobook, now featuring a gatefold, sewn sections, an open spine book block and a Swiss-bound cover. “For the past year self portraits have been my constant passion,” Mandel wrote in 1971. “At every opportunity I would fasten my camera to its tripod and steal from the house out into the insane world of everyday people, in hope of recording a bit of real fantasy.… The people react to my presence, to the buzzing machine a few feet away, to the words I have to say—suddenly, click! The machine has made its ‘decisive moment’ and only the film knows what latent treasures it owns; for I was busy being the subject matter and will have to wait until after processing to see what all really happened…”